If you’re thinking about getting an epidural to help manage the pain of childbirth, you’re not alone. More than 70% of women delivering at hospitals elect for an epidural or other spinal ...

During labor, these medications can lessen or numb pain below your waist. They include epidural block, spinal block, and combined spinal-epidural (CSE) block. Epidural block: Often just called an ...

I believe in pain control and pain management, and I think that studies looking at satisfaction for the whole birth process have definitely shown that women who have undergo an epidural ...

There are advocates of everything from "natural" birth (minimal intervention and no epidurals), "ecstatic" birth (achieved through hypnosis and other mental gymnastics), "total control" birth ...

Safe and effective, this pain-relieving medical procedure is still surrounded by myth and misinformation.

The Tokyo metropolitan government will subsidize the cost of “painless delivery,” the use of an epidural or other anesthetics during childbirth, for Tokyo residents starting in fiscal 2025.

Mansplaining is a tale as old as time, but Shay Mitchell, who is expecting her first child, is leading the resistance. There’s few things that can fast-track a woman to peak rage quite like ...

During fiscal 2022, 386 women opted for the pain-relief method during childbirth. It is performed by inserting a thin tube into the epidural space of the spine and injecting a local anesthetic.